My grandfather would drive past straw fields and tell me the bales of hay all rolled up was shreded wheat, what i ate for breakfast. It grossed me out and took awhile for me to eat shreded wheat again.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that shredded wheat was harvested from niagara falls because of the picture on the box— gord
- My Dad told me that the big bales of hay wrapped in plastic sitting in the fields on farms were cow eggs.Anon
- i used to believe the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back" was a drinking straw. sadly, i was 23. — jennie kay
- When I first heard Stawberry Fields Forever, I misheard the lyrics as Strawberry Fields For Trevor.— Matt
- I used to think that bales of hay were cow cocoons.— Wally
- i used to think bales of hay were housing indians— alyssa